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Estimate of Potential Fuel Reprocessing Revision #28 - Part A

Description: The power and estimated reprocessing load are tabulated for existing and proposed United States and United States-built reactors of 10 Kw or greater thermal power.
Date: June 25, 1959
Creator: Ullmann, J. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Status Report on the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes

Description: The new and as yet unsolved problems introduced by the production of large quantities of fission products and radioactive isotopes from fission or neutron capture present mankind a most complex technical, economic, and political problem. On one hand, the possibility of using the fission process to produce energy from an unexploited and abundant natural source is emerging from large programs of research and development. We are also beginning to see the promise of use of particulate and electroma… more
Date: June 25, 1957
Creator: Culler, Floyd L., Jr. & McLain, Stuart
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Chemistry of Vanadium: A Summary of the Non-Project Literature Through November, 1952

Description: The non-project literature concerning the chemistry of vanadium has been summarized through November, 1952. The report is presented in terms of izo- and heteropoly vanadates and cationic forms of pentavalent vanadium, complexes of di-, tri-, and pentavalent vanadium, and oxidation potentials of various vanadium systems. A bibliography of 93 references is included.
Date: June 25, 1954
Creator: Frank, Andrew J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memorandum

Description: We have recently completed measurement of resonance escape probability in the BNL reactor and in several slightly-enriched uranium light water moderated lattices. In addition, WAPD has made available to us data from other slightly enriched uranium-water lattices, so that about 18 lattices in all have been done.
Date: June 25, 1956
Creator: Sher, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Reactivity Value of Highly Burned Plutonium in Thermal Reactors

Description: It has been suggested by many workers in the power reactor field that a more efficient utilization of natural uranium may be obtained in thermal reactors if the Pu produced in a fuel cycle were used to enrich a subsequent cycle in which the irradiation-depleted-uranium would be reirradiated. The work described here was done for the purpose of evaluating the reactivity value of the Pu enrichment under the assumption that all plutonium produced is, after chemical separation, fabricated into separ… more
Date: June 25, 1956
Creator: Heineman, R. E. & Lefevre, H. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Deposition of Corrosion Products by Cataphoresis

Description: This report is a record of experimentation conducted intermittently over a period of two years and directed toward preventing deposition of transport corrosion products on fuel elements and other critical components in high-temperature, circulating water nuclear reactor. It includes the postulated mechanism for deposition, a description of experimental equipment, experimental data, results obtained from the experiments, and recommendations for future study.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: Fagan, Walter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Proposed R.F. Buncher for A-12

Description: A buncher and pre-accelerator for A-12 is described that has 360 degree acceptance and could handle a current of one ampere from a low voltage source.
Date: June 25, 1952
Creator: Colgate, S. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Static Corrosion Tests of Fabrication Material for D-12 Waste Evaporator

Description: Three types of stainless steel (309 SCB, Carpenter 20, 304-L) were exposed to both the liquid and vapor phase of each of three types of solutions. The time of exposure totaled ten days during which the specimens were cleaned and weighed periodically. The three synthetic D-12 waste solutions contained respectively chrome-high chloride, chrome-low chloride and high chloride sans chromium. The solutions were renewed at each weighing.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: Barnes, R. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Spectrophotometric Determination of Boron in Plutonium Using an Oxalate Separation

Description: An improved method for the determination of boron in plutonium is reported. Precipitation of plutonium (III) acid oxalate prior to color development with curcumin results in increased precision, greater speed, and lower costs. Results are presented of a statistical study involving all variables.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: Newell, Donald M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Thermal Entrance Regions Part III. Heat Transfer to Liquid Metals

Description: Technical report covering the work done to explore heat transfer analytically and experimentally in liquid metals in turbulent flow within the thermal entrance region of circular tubes having uniform well temperature. Includes implications of this research. [From Summary]
Date: June 25, 1954
Creator: Harrison, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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In-reactor corrosion of X-8001 and 1245 aluminum: Analysis of data from PT IP-42A

Description: Failures of standard fuel element jackets (1245 aluminum alloy) after relatively short Hanford reactor exposures are occurring at high reactor power levels. Metallographic examination of fuel element jackets from short exposure ruptures shows the cause of failure to be rapid intergranular corrosion. This type of attack has been reproduced in laboratory tests by exposure to water at temperatures above 200 C, or to steam at temperatures higher than 300 C. Flow disruptions due to misalignment of t… more
Date: June 25, 1958
Creator: Dillon, R. L. & Richman, R. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Impeachment

Description: This report describes the steps of impeachment, including initiation, investigation, and voting.
Date: June 25, 1957
Creator: Radigan, James P., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radioactive debris from operations Upshot and Knothole

Description: Activities of the National Monitoring System are summarized for the period March 1 to June 15, 1953, during which eleven nuclear devices were fired at the Nevada Proving Grounds during Operation Upshot-Knothole. The program employed a world-wide network of 125 sampling locations. Each station collected samples of atmospheric dusts for radiometric analysis. A comparison is made of air concentrations and fall-out activities. Data are tabulated.
Date: June 25, 1954
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coating Removal Waste Loss Reduction : Final Report, Production Test 221-B-8

Description: The following report covers a test with the objective to demonstrate that the plutonium and uranium losses associated with the aluminum jacket dissolution could be reduced by substituting a water wash for the 5 per cent nitric acid wash following the coating removal and that this change would not adversely effect the product yield of decontamination in subsequent process steps.
Date: June 25, 1951
Creator: Kirkendall, B. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flux Distributions and Critical k [infinity] Values for Cylindrical Reactors Simulation the MTR

Description: From summary: "In order to estimate the effect of placing bismuth and thorium layers near the MTR core, radial flux distributions and k[infinity] values were calculated for cylindrical reactors having cylindrical layers of these materials of the same height as the core and beryllium reflector and placed either next to the core or embedded in the beryllium reflector."
Date: June 25, 1952
Creator: Bray, D. T. & McMurry, Henry Lewis, {}
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Martensitic Reaction for Uranium

Description: Hardness measurements of specimens quenched from the beta yields alpha phase at different cooling rates support the proposed martensitic beta yields alpha transformation for urnnium. Specimens held in 635 and 600 deg C isothermal baths prior to subsequent quenching to --5 deg C require more than 10 and two seconds, respectively before diffusion mechanlsms for beta yields alpha transformation commence. Once started, about 500 seconds are required to complete transformation by diffusion at these … more
Date: June 25, 1957
Creator: Bement, A. L. & Wallace, W. P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Arc Calcination of Thorium Oxide

Description: An over-all description of the background material on the use of electrical arcs for heating of powders is presented as well as a summary of experimental studies on the arc calcination of thoria. Favorable results have been indicated both with heating thoria powder in an arc heated gas and with thoria formed into a consumable electrode. Use of a consumable electrode produces thoria particles 0.1 to 0.01 mu in diameter. It is recommended that additional electrodes be fabricated and further arc c… more
Date: June 25, 1958
Creator: Johnsson, K.O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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